Malcolm Gladwell

Posted on Wednesday, November 27th, 2013 at 10:06 pm by Emily Wallace

David and GoliathWith Moneyball’s Michael Lewis

What happens when underdogs confront the powerful? When does a disability leave someone better off? Why have so many people at the top of their profession had childhoods of deprivation and struggle? Malcolm Gladwell (The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers) examines the battlefields of Northern Ireland and Vietnam, takes us into the minds of cancer researchers and civil rights leaders, and explores the dynamics of classrooms – all to demonstrate how fundamentally we misunderstand the true meaning of advantages and disadvantages.

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